Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: netfilter: spanning tree: Add masked_ether_addr_equal and neatening

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:00:00 -0700

On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 19:36 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:58:45PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 
> > There is code duplication of a masked ethernet address comparison here
> > so make it a separate function instead.
> > 
> > Miscellanea:
> > 
> > o Neaten alignment of FWINV macro uses to make it clearer for the reader
> Applied, thanks.
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> > 
> > This masked_ether_addr_equal function could go into etherdevice.h,
> > but I don't see another use like it in kernel code.  Is there one?
> This is specific of iptables, not even nftables would use this. So I
> would keep this in the iptables tree.

Did you see the other patch that adds a generic
ether_addr_equal_masked() and uses it in a few
more files?